Senior Data Engineer: Scale & Architect Big Data Systems

gamma.app; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Gamma.app is hiring a Data Engineer to own the data infrastructure and end-to-end event pipelines as the platform scales to hundreds of millions of users. You will design distributed systems, mentor engineers, and drive decisions across analytics, product, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, building scalable data solutions, and ensuring data quality, privacy, and security across the company.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a data or software engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and high-growth SaaS products at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data pipeline architecture from ingestion to analytics.
• Design distributed data systems that scale with performance.
• Lead data infrastructure initiatives through growth.
• Establish data quality, reliability, and observability best practices.
• Mentor engineers and guide data stack decisions.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and leadership to enable data-driven decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data infrastructure

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Apache Kafka

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

dbt

Terraform

GDPR/CCPA compliance

Security best practices

Job description

Gamma.app is hiring a Data Engineer to own the data infrastructure and end-to-end event pipelines as the platform scales to hundreds of millions of users. You will design distributed systems, mentor engineers, and drive decisions across analytics, product, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, building scalable data solutions, and ensuring data quality, privacy, and security across the company.